Hobert glanced at Duke Bowen and judged that the cause of his illness seemed to be under a curse.

But he didn't say anything, and the whole of Beckland wasn't just a demigod, and it was impossible for no one to notice that before that.

Hobert dutifully followed the queen and princess, earnestly carrying out the task of protection and vigilance, and neither the Bowen nor the Bowens could help but glance at the handsome young man.

Of course they had met Hobart, but they had only attended the ball that the king had invited on 1 April, and had not attended any balls since, and they didn't know that Hobart worked in MI9, so they were a little puzzled by Hobert's presence here.

More than half an hour later, the Queen's visit ended, and the group embarked on the return journey.

It can be seen that the queen has a good relationship with Duke Bowen, and the Duke Bowen is reluctant to say goodbye, and the queen who is sitting in the carriage also looks at the direction of the villa with a worried expression after the carriage begins to accelerate.

After the carriage had left the manor, the queen suddenly asked Hobert, "Do you see the cause of Duke Bowen?" ”

Hobert was slightly stunned, why did you ask me?

He owed a debt and said, "Your Majesty, I am inexperienced and have not studied medicine, so I have not seen the cause of the disease. ”

The queen looked at Hobert and nodded slightly, "It's good to be cautious when you're young. ”

Then she changed her words: "I seconded you from Georgina by name." ”

Hobert was slightly stunned again, he thought that he was really a demigod of MI9, and he was the only one who was free today.

After observing him for the past few days, he found that the others were indeed quite busy.

At the same time, he had a question in his heart, why did the queen do this?

After a moment's thought, Hobert said: "Thank you for the favor of Her Majesty the Queen, I didn't think too much about it when I got the order from MI9. ”

This is to express my position: I am a MI9 person, loyal to the royal family, and there is no need to woo me in private. There's no need to give me some tasks in private, just let Georgina give orders if there are any tasks.

Of course, this is also a statement: I will not accept private courtship, and I will not refuse tasks outside of public responsibility.

For other nobles, this was definitely an opportunity, but Hobart didn't plan to hang out in Beckland all the time, so he didn't plan to bind himself to the royal family.

The queen smiled and said, "The more cautious you behave, the more you are in line with my desired candidate." ”

Hobert: I ...... I'll go!

After all, this is the top ruling class, which is all human spirits, and one sentence blocked Hobert's way.

"I won't embarrass you too much!" At this time, the queen changed her words: "You just need to help me investigate in secret, who is going to hurt Duke Bowen." ”

She sighed and said, "I sent a lot of people to treat Bowen, and even spent a lot of money to invite the bishop of the Mother Earth God Church to come and treat him, and their diagnosis was the same: Bowen had a curse that came on slowly.

But they tried everything they could to get rid of the curse.

"Maybe it's time to think differently and find out who is the spellcaster."

Hobert glanced at the queen and then at Alice, and sure enough, he saw a little unconvinced on Alice's face: You are embarrassed to say your daughter, aren't you also doing some dangerous investigations.

But then, Hobert felt that this seemed to be human nature, even if the politician was full of political goals, there would be one or two people who cared, and that would often be their bottom line.

He sighed, continued to shirk, and said truthfully, "But I'm not good at solving curses. ”

The queen didn't speak, but just glanced at Alice.

It's like saying: lie to your face.

Hobert smiled bitterly: "That kind of urgent curse is not the same thing as a curse that comes on slowly.

"From what I have to know, slow-onset curses are more difficult to solve, and it's harder to find the medium of the curse and the caster behind it.

"The queen should know that my abilities are not good at breaking this difficult curse."

"For this matter, your ability is still secondary!" The queen stared at Hobert: "Actually, until now, I don't believe in the diagnosis of those people before!" Do you check if Duke Bowen is really cursed? ”

After a little thought, Hobert understood what the queen meant: "Because I don't have any power background at present, and I am not bound to any interests for the time being. ”

The queen bowed slightly: "As Georgina said, you are indeed very smart. ”

Then she promised: "As long as your investigation is only a breakthrough, I will also promote you to major general early." ”

A demigod, it is a matter of time before he is promoted to major general, but Hobert was not cultivated by the royal family, so he must go through the procedure and work in MI9 for a year and a half before being promoted to major general.

The hurdle of being promoted to general used to be a piece of Christine's heart, but Hobert didn't have much enthusiasm for this rank.

The queen also saw it, and she reacted quickly: "At the same time, I will make you the most noble part of the kingdom of Rune." ”

Alice, who had been listening to the audit, suddenly owed, and she understood what the queen meant, which meant that the queen was already thinking about marrying a princess to Hobert.

The most noble part of the kingdom is, of course, members of the royal family!

After marrying the princess, Hobert became a member of the royal family.

Hobart did not know the Queen, and he assumed that the Queen meant to support his entry into the House of Lords.

He knew that if he didn't agree, he would not give the queen a son.

Sometimes getting along with superiors is so helpless.

Their gifts may not be what they want, but if they don't want or show any dislike, they will definitely offend each other.

"Of course, I will do the tasks assigned by the queen." Hobert said his needs by the way: "If my fiefdom Longtail Island has any bad rumors in the future, please don't believe it." ”

In the future, he will still focus on the territory, and many of the manor owners on Longtail Island run for the nobles, and some have interests with the rich people of Beckland.

When Hobert cleans them up, he may draw a denunciation from Beckland.

If there is a queen to cover him, those nobles and rich people will not even dare to fart more.

The queen happily agreed, "No problem." ”

To her, it was just a raging sea, an island without even a gold mine.

Rumors in that kind of place don't have much impact in Beckland.

Although Hobert took over the queen's task, he did not intend to investigate it very seriously.

Especially when he encounters danger, he must pick and choose.

However, there is still an attitude that should be there, and at the moment Hobert asked some specific information about Duke Bowen, as well as the results of the investigation of several people before.

The queen promised to send the details to Hobart tomorrow.

Soon, they were back on King's Road and into Beckland.

Hobert breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the mother and daughter were sent back to the palace, his mission for today was basically completed.

Just as he thought of this, suddenly Hobert had a premonition of danger again.

He jerked to his feet and pulled Alice up from her seat.

Crash~

Almost at the same time, the window shattered, and two crystal-like arrows broke through the glass and shot in, hitting the spot where Alice had just been sitting, and smashing a large hole in the car!

There was a wailing sound of horses in front of them, and the remaining strength of the two short arrows actually killed a horse!

Chad in the convoy immediately said, "Protect the queen and princess!" ”

The guards were well-trained to surround the queen's carriage, and several of the Extraordinary immediately jumped onto the rooftops of the surrounding houses in search of the glass-breaking Assassins.

Once again, Hobart poured his spirit into the royal button, but he immediately realized that his spirit seemed to be mired in a quagmire, and he had not received any power feedback at all.

Hobert glanced out of the corner of his eye, and at some point, the surface of the button was already covered with a layer of hoarfrost.

Obviously, the other party knew about the seal in Hobert's hand and made corresponding preparations in advance.

Hobart lifted the seal on his glove: "Invisibility is forbidden here!" ”

Suddenly, Hobart felt what appeared to be someone coming from the bottom of the carriage, and he immediately grabbed Alice by the collar and lifted it behind him.

Almost as soon as Alice's feet left the ground, an ice gun-like weapon pierced the carpet and headed straight for Alice.

Hobart kicked away and slammed down, but didn't hit any target.

Ahem~

Alice and the queen coughed and had a fever.

Hobert also felt some discomfort in his throat, and when he reached the level of a demigod, he was almost free from illness.

He would feel unwell, it must have been caused by an extraordinary virus.

The other party could not be "invisible" silently, so they had to start attacking in other ways.

The two windows of the carriage suddenly became so deep that it was impossible to see the outside scene, as if it had become a bottomless black hole.

From the left window, thin and tough hairs stretched out, tightly wrapping Hobert and Alice together, immobilizing them for a while, but the hair perfectly avoided the queen.

From the window glass on the right, black flames shot out, flying like bullets towards the two men.

Hobart stared at the flames: "Chaos! ”

The black flames dodged Herbert and Alice perfectly, burning those heads off a lot.

Hobert, who had regained some freedom, kicked the right door away and pointed to the left door a little farther away: "Banished!" ”

Driven by a huge force, the left door flew away and gradually became illusory, eventually disappearing.

Before everyone could catch their breath, from the bottle in the wine cabinet of the carriage, two unreal looking hands suddenly stretched out, grabbed Alice's neck, and dragged her into the mirror of the glass bottle.

Hobert grabbed the other man's arm and jerked it out.

Although the extraordinary person of the "witch" path has agility, she is not known for her strength, and she is obviously stumbling when she is dragged by Hobert, and it seems that she has almost been pulled out of the mirror world.

But at the same time, because of this pull, the force that almost broke Alice's neck finally eased.

"Exploit!" Hobert used the rules of extraordinary ability to make the opponent's ability to travel through the mirror world end early, and her arms became noticeably more condensed, and a hair was exposed from the bottle.

Before he could see the other party's face, there was a loud bang that the wine bottle shattered, and Hobert, who was holding the other party's arm, was only a handful of broken glass in his hand.

At this time, a phantom was reflected in the window on the side of the street, and before it could be seen clearly, the phantom disappeared again and jumped onto the glass farther away.

It wasn't that the other party was beaten away by Hobart, but that her purpose was to assassinate, and after the raid was unsuccessful, she chose to withdraw immediately.

Hobert, who still continued to be vigilant, realized that the other party should be named Sequence 4 "Witch of Despair".

Hobert said in his heart: Who do you look down on? I'm a "Fallen Earl", so I'm sending a "Witch of Despair" to assassinate me?

This is not the other party's carelessness, it's just that there is a certain deviation in their intelligence, and at present, only Georgina and a few other people in the royal family clearly know that Hobart is a Sequence 4, and the others don't know this yet.

Being able to sit in the queen's carriage for close protection of course immediately exposed the information that Hobert had been promoted to demigod, but the problem was that they didn't have any information about Hobert's battle with other demigods, and they didn't know anything about Hobert's fighting style.

Coupled with the fact that they could be sure that Hobart had not carried out any conservation missions before, they believed that Hobart lacked the corresponding experience, so in the end they only dispatched a Sequence 4.

The reason why Hobart has such a guess is because the other party has already assassinated two times in a row, which is no longer a warning, but a real assassination!

Alice didn't seem to think about this, and she was a little scared when she was safe: "He really wants to kill me?" ”

The queen also snorted coldly: "It's too much! ”

Assassinating a princess in front of the queen is indeed too much.

The queen said to Chad outside: "Change the car!" Get back to the palace as fast as you can! ”

The three of them came to a carriage in which the guards were riding, bypassed the carriage, which looked somewhat dilapidated, and hurried back to the palace.

When she got out of the carriage, the queen told Hobert in the back: "Come with us." ”

If it weren't for this advice, Hobart would have found a lounge to cat, and would have gone back to the palace anyway, even if he didn't follow the queen and Alice closely, it would not be considered a dereliction of duty.

But the queen said so, and he had no choice but to follow the mother and daughter.

Leaving the royal stables, we walked through the square with the sculpture of the "Protector" to the main hall of the entire Sodrrak Palace, the Hall of Thales.

Only then did Hobert know that the queen was going to the king.

He sighed in his heart: This is the right person! Instead of looking for the elusive Witch Church, it is better to find the king quickly.

The hall didn't look very grand, but on all four walls of the building were mighty statues, and the stone eyes of those statues seemed to look at everyone approaching the hall with a look of majesty.

This makes the hall full of mystery, and anyone who comes here, including Hobert, who has been promoted to demigodship, feels like they have to submit to the master of the hall.

Out of an abundance of caution, Hobert covered the "Wood of Order" and the "Crystal of Order" with a wall of spirituality.

Although after Sequence 4, Hobert can completely control the aura of the "State of Disorder", and even an angel can't notice anything unusual, but he doesn't know why today, and he always feels a little uneasy.

Hobert was stopped outside the main hall, and the queen and Alice briefly straightened their clothes, and Alice pulled down the collar to deliberately expose the hideous red pinch marks on her neck, and then they entered the hall together.

Ten minutes later, the old Bernie of the eunuch came out and said, "Your Majesty has asked Hobert Jeffrey to come in for questioning." ”

Hobert was stunned for a moment, and handed the cane to Chad on the side, this behavior was normal, after all, it was a little rude to see the king with a cane.

Seeing that he handled it very naturally, Hobert breathed a sigh of relief and followed Old Bernie inside.

After passing through a corridor full of fine works of art and paintings, then past a banquet hall, and finally to a large room full of birds and flowers, the fog of Beckland had not yet lifted, but the sun was abundant.

As soon as he entered the door, Hobert glanced at George III, and he was obviously stunned, because he felt that George III in front of him was different from when they met a few times before!

He couldn't tell what was different, but he felt it was different.

In accordance with the court etiquette he had learned before, Hobart fell to one knee: "Honorable king, praise you for your kindness and majesty. ”

"Get up." George III was also looking at Hobert, and then asked in a curious tone, "You are Hobert, who performed well in the battle of Fenerport City?" ”

Hobart realizes that George III is actually asking: Are you the "founder's" dependent?

"With the presence of the 'protectors' at the time, my contribution was really insignificant." Hobert got up and glanced out of the corner of his eye at the queen, who was sitting on the king's side, and Alice who was standing on the queen.

George III didn't pay much attention to Hobart's answer, but asked, "You solved the two assassinations of Alice?" ”

"Yes."

"Is an assassin a witch?"

Hobert replied cautiously: "The first assassination was the use of a curse, I'm not sure, but the assassin on the return trip is indeed a 'witch'!" ”

George III was a little angry: "This group of madmen dare to assassinate the princess!" Not killing them all was my biggest mistake! ”

He looked at Alice, his eyes full of pampering: "Don't worry, I will definitely find the murderer for you." ”

Alice, who was originally very noble, cried so much at this time that the pear blossoms were raining, and nodded pitifully.

At this time, the queen pointed and said: "Your Majesty, I know that you are busy with affairs, but no matter how busy you are, you must be cautious when choosing a partner to work with." ”

Hobart realized that the king had never admitted that he had cooperated with the Witch Church.

And the queen should know some of the insider, but not much, otherwise she would not have advised so much.

The queen did not completely expose it, but only expressed her dissatisfaction in the direction of the king: "If they dare to assassinate the princess today, maybe they will assassinate me tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow they will assassinate the king!"

"Such a force must definitely be severely cracked down!"

The queen is in the right direction, and only reminds the king: I know that you have a certain cooperation.

She then points the contradiction at the witch challenging the king's authority.

Hobert saw the stitches and said, "My subordinates are retiring." ”

George III bowed slightly, and Old Bernie glanced at one of the guards, who led Hobart away.

Leaving the hall and taking the cane from Chad, Hobert remembered the George III he had just met: Could it be that the George III he had seen before was fake?

He thought about it seriously, and it was not impossible for him to do so.

Hobart remembers that George III seemed to have been promoted from Sequence 5 to Sequence 1 all at once due to some loophole before the godhood ceremony, which caused him to be in a very unstable state, and should only be able to move around certain areas like those Blood Dukes who were not in good shape.

So what occasionally appears in front of the public may be his stand-in?

Because Hobert blocked his memory of Adam, he didn't realize that those who appeared in public could also be imaginary doppelgangers manipulated by George III.

It was about twenty minutes before the queen and Alice came out, and Hobart followed them back to the main hall of the queen's bedchamber.

When he was about to retire again, the queen suddenly said to him, "Thanks to you by Alice's side today, I don't know what your preferences are, so I will reward you with a few knick-knacks." ”

For the Queen, a person like Hobert, who seemed to have no desires, was the most difficult to handle.

Hobert did not refuse: "Thank you, Queen! ”

Alice on the side said, "Mother, let Hobart go back with me, and protect me all the way today, right?" ”

The queen smiled and said, "Do you think I, the queen, am an ornament?" ”

She has solemnly warned the king today that if the Witch Church continues to assassinate Alice, then the king is despising the political power of Duke Bowen!

Hobert, who stood at the bottom of the line, said in his heart: This is not necessarily, you only think of the political game, and you do not think of the game of extraordinary power. Besides, it is a recognized fact that George III has children, and last year alone there were no two princes, which directly made the prince a "high-risk industry".

"Of course I believe in my mother." Alice sat on the queen's side and said, "I actually want to know more about the witch from Hobert. ”

The queen glanced at her daughter, and then at the sunny and handsome Hobert: "I know, then let him protect you." ”

Hobert was a little helpless, he originally thought that today's task was not difficult, but it turned out that he seemed to be close to the dangerous whirlpool.

So Hobert had no choice but to follow Alice back to her bedchamber.

It was a very delicate courtyard in the palace of Sodrak, and as soon as Alice entered the door, she said to the servants who greeted her, "Prepare an extra lunch." ”

The servant chief, who was in his thirties and very capable, glanced at the stranger behind him and said, "Yes." ”

"I mean, prepare a lunch of the same size as me!" Alice added, "Put Count Jeffrey's cutlery in the dining room." ”

The chief servant couldn't help but look at Hobart again: "Yes." ”

It's no wonder that the servant chief was so surprised, Alice had only entertained the late Prince Edsak in her own dining room, but today she made an exception to entertain this earl, which shows the special nature of this earl, or the weight in the mind of Her Royal Highness Alice.

(End of chapter)